{"id":34597,"date":"2026-03-18T17:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/34597\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:44:06","slug":"one-person-dead-after-gondola-crashes-down-mountain-at-swiss-ski-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/34597\/","title":{"rendered":"One person dead after gondola crashes down mountain at Swiss ski resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ENGELBERG, Switzerland, March 18 (Reuters) &#8211; One person has died \u200cafter a cable car \u200ccabin at a Swiss ski resort \u200bcrashed down a snowy mountainside during strong winds on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A police spokesperson told reporters that \u200cone person \u2060sustained fatal injuries although the exact cause of \u2060death had not been confirmed. The individual, whose identity \u200bwas not \u200bdisclosed, \u200bwas the only \u200cperson in the gondola, said police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A helicopter had been dispatched to the scene in the ski resort of Engelberg \u200cin central Switzerland, \u200bair-rescue service Rega \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigations into \u200bhow the accident \u200ctook place are ongoing, the \u200bNidwalden \u200bcantonal police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Romina Amato, Marleen Kaesbier and \u200bKirsti Knolle, \u200cWriting by Madeline Chambers \u200band John Revill Editing \u200bby Ludwig Burger)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENGELBERG, Switzerland, March 18 (Reuters) &#8211; One person has died \u200cafter a cable car \u200ccabin at a Swiss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[12573,20479,18070,4441,20480,17],"class_list":["post-34597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-engelberg","tag-fatal-injuries","tag-police-spokesperson","tag-ski-resort","tag-snowy-mountainside","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116251424413557863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}